Legal Opinion

New Orleans Great Northern R. v. Thomas

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 15, 1911No. 18,620PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; Thomas M. Burns, Judge. Action by the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company against Warren Thomas, Assessor, and the State Board of Appraisers and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

BREAUX, O. J.

Plaintiff sued Warren Thomas, assessor of St. Tammany parish and T. E. Brewster, sheriff, and the State Board of Assessors, through Paul Capdevielle, State Auditor, and Walter Guión, Attorney General, and the town of Mandeville, through, its proper officers, and the town of Abita, through its proper officers, to have a judgment decreeing null the action of the State Board of Appraisers in deciding that in the year 1910 defendant’s railroad is subject to taxation for that year.

Also to compel these defendants to cancel all taxes on the railroad within the parish of St. Tammany…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Hollingsworth v. ThompsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1893
  2. Louisiana & A. Ry. Co. v. ShawSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1908
  3. Board of Trustees of Centenary College v. HubbsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
  4. Budd v. HoustonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1884

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Arkansas-Louisiana Pipe Line Co. v. CoverdaleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1935
  2. G. R. McKinney Co. v. Louisiana Tax CommissionLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1933
  3. Arkansas-Louisiana Pipe Line Co. v. CoverdaleDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1935
  4. Harold A. Dundee v. Orleans Parish Board of Supervisors of ElectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971
  5. Harold A. Dundee v. Orleans Parish Board of Supervisors of ElectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1971

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